Title Violence and the sacred in the ancient Near East : Girardian conversation at Catalhoyuk / edited by Ian Hodder

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource Contents Setting the archaeological scene / Ian Hodder -- Introduction to the thought of René Girard / William Johnsen -- Death in Catalhöyük / Wolfgang Palaver -- A Girardian framework for violent injuries at neolithic Çatalhöyük in their western Asian context / Christopher J. Knüsel, Bonnie Glencross, and Marco Milella -- Ritual practices and conflict mitigation at early Neolithic Körtik Tepe and Göbekli Tepe, upper Mesopotamia : a mimetic theoretical approach / Lee Clare, Oliver Dietrich, Julia Gresky, Jens Notroff, Joris Peters, Nadja Pöllath -- Paired leopards and encircled prey : images of rivalry and sacrifice at Çatalhöyük / Mark Anspach -- Mimetic theory, the wall paintings, and the domestication, de-domestication, and sacrifice of cattle at Çatalhöyük / William A. Johnsen -- The ordeal of the town : rites and symbols at Çatalhöyük / Benoît Chantre -- Stretching Girard's hypothesis : road marks for a long-term perspective / James Alison -- Girard's anthropology vs. cognitive archaeology / Jean-Pierre Dupuy -- Religion as a factor in the development of settled life / Ian Hodder Summary This volume brings together two groups engaged with understanding the relationships between religion and violence. The first group consists of scholars of the mimetic theory of Rene Girard, for whom human violence is rooted in the rivalry that stems from imitation. To manage this violence of all against all, humans often turn to violence against one, the scapegoat, thereafter incorporated into ritual. The second group consists of archaeologists working at the Neolithic sites of Çatalhöyük and Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. At both sites there is evidence of religious practices that center on wild animals, often large and dangerous in form. Is it possible that these wild animals were ritually killed in the ways suggested by Girardian theorists? Were violence and the sacred intimately entwined and were these the processes that made possible and even stimulated the origins of farming in the ancient Near East? In this volume, Ian Hodder and a team of contributors seek to answer these questions by linking theory and data in exciting new ways Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 29, 2019) Subject Girard, René, 1923-2015. SUBJECT Girard, René, 1923-2015 fast Subject Violence -- Turkey -- Çatal Mound Religion, Prehistoric -- Turkey -- Çatal Mound Neolithic period -- Turkey -- Çatal Mound Excavations (Archaeology) -- Turkey -- Çatal Mound Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Turkey -- Çatal Mound SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Antiquities, Prehistoric Excavations (Archaeology) Neolithic period Religion, Prehistoric Violence SUBJECT Çatal Mound (Turkey) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000077 Subject Turkey -- Çatal Mound Form Electronic book Author Hodder, Ian, editor ISBN 9781108591829 1108591825 9781108567626 1108567622 9781108614184 1108614183

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